Top left: German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrates Germany’s fourth goal during the 2010 World Cup quarter-final soccer match against Argentina at Green Point stadium in Cape Town July 3, 2010. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Top center: Merkel during the Asia-Europe Meeting in Brussels, October 4, 2010. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Top right: Merkel reacts during a panel discussion in Berlin, October 1, 2008.REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

Oh, sure, BG, belittle Joe E. Brown, the only — and I mean only — famous person to ever, ever come from my mother’s home town, Holgate, Ohio. Did I mention that he is the only famous person to ever come from Holgate, Henry County, Ohio?

@Ifly – yes, that’s right. Ms Merkels boot is often placed firmly in the prosterior of one of her junior ministers, should they step out of line.
They don’t call her The Foghorn of Doom for nothing, you know.